Bad Romance: The Most Tainted Love in Twenty-First Century Pop Culture
There is no paucity of romances gone wrong, sour or otherwise positively suicidal (namely, Romeo and Juliet) in the annals of human history. As such, [Read More…]
Dating a Movie Star in the 1990s Was So Much More Private Than Dating (/Marrying) a Pop Star in the 2020s
Being that it’s no great leap to make the connection between Kat Coiro’s Marry Me and Roger Michell’s Notting Hill, it bears remarking upon the [Read More…]
Caricaturizing Kesha: Kim Petras Enlists Dr. Luke to Co-Write and Produce the Ultimately Damaging Slut Pop
While not exactly a “cultural reset”—the phrase that gets thrown about so freely for just about everything—Kim Petras’ seven-track EP, Slut Pop, does something that [Read More…]
Image is Everything, Love is a Lie: Why The Tinder Swindler Resonates On So Many Levels
As the slow burn of Netflix’s latest hit, The Tinder Swindler, unfolds, viewers might initially be led to believe Felicity Morris’ documentary is nothing special. [Read More…]
Samantha Jones Does Not Want to Meet for a Cocktail in Paris
There were so many injustices done to beloved characters throughout And Just Like That… (even the ones that aren’t hastily “offed” in the way Stanford [Read More…]
“London Samantha Jones” as a Composite of Edina and Patsy From Absolutely Fabulous
Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the word “fabulous” was bandied about so freely on Sex and the City. Maybe it was all light foreshadowing [Read More…]
Just When You Were Ready to Write Off the Academy, It Proves It’s the Only Legitimate Cinematic Institution Truly Aware That House of Gucci Is Trash and Kristen Stewart’s Performance Was Divine
The Academy, like so many institutions that get their clout from dangling glamor to the hoi polloi via long-standing awards ceremonies, has come under fire [Read More…]
For the Umpteenth Time, Lindsay Lohan Mocks Her 00s Persona for an Ad Campaign
For someone who keeps saying she’s changed long ago, and wants to forget about the part of her life that caused her to reign over [Read More…]
A Holy Dildo and a Little Bit of (Sapphic) Ecstasy: Benedetta
At a nunnery in the small Italian village of Pescia, called the Convent of Theatines, a girl named Benedetta (played at the beginning by Elena [Read More…]
Landscapers Proves the MARINA Adage, “Hollywood Infected Your Brain”
It’s amazing how much fantasy—a tool of survival and self-preservation—can betray a person after too long spent in that false world. Landscapers is very much [Read More…]
